 I'm Amber Keneally, I'm doing a Bachelor of Psychology with honours. So my name is Taylor Burgess and I am studying a Bachelor of Communications in Journalism. My name is Marussia Gonzalez and I'm studying the Bachelor of Social Work. I left school after grade 10, I decided that schooling wasn't for me, it wasn't the right environment for me, my head just wasn't in it. I missed two years of schooling when I was a teenager due to homelessness and then once I hit grade 12 I had to drop out halfway due to illness and since then I've been raising children, teenagers as well. Final year of high school I was couchsurfing, just trying to get to graduation day which was a bit of a struggle and you know I kind of I guess took a few years off to recover in a way and catch up. I got into retail management and for a few years I thought, yep this is good, I'm getting money, I'm happy but I got to a stage where it just wasn't enough and I still had that niggling thought in the back of my head. I wanted to study. After being in the workforce for a while I kind of realised I wanted something more. I didn't finish my senior schooling and I didn't know if it was a possibility for me to go on and study. I did always want to go to uni, I just felt like with the marks that I got it was never a possibility. Currently studying social work is because I've had social workers my whole life and up until about last year actually I was still in regular contact with social workers. Terrified. It had been so long since you know I'd written an essay or referenced anything. I was definitely nervous to go back into studying. Once I got in I realised I was among peers, people my age, older, younger. It took a couple of weeks and I realised that I was definitely going to have the support that I needed. Even just after the first lot of assessments it was just like that little hurdle that I had to get over and once I got those grades back and they were good grades I was like ah okay I can do this. At the end of it being able to see that number which should not hold that much power it really did I guess bring back that confidence that I was definitely capable. I love it and I'm so glad that I've decided to do it. I'm absolutely loving it. It's a new degree so the courses are all very catered to modern journalism. I'm getting to do things that I guess no one else has really had the opportunity to do so fast so. Every course I do something else comes up and it just ignites that passion and I just can't wait to get out into the field and to graduate the graduation that's what I'm looking forward to.